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Mexico City Too
By mcdog | May 30, 2007
We were out of bed early, this was our final day in Mexico City, and we needed to be out of our room by 1400hrs. Not a problem, we were assured that we would be back from our tour of the city long before that time. So the bags were packed and left inside the room and we went down to the lobby to meet our guide/driver. We had booked the tour of the city but somehow we were on a trip to the Frida Kahlo house and then the Floating Gardens, it was too late to change tours. Other people were collected from their hotels, a Mexican couple living in the States, a doctor and his wife from San Diego and an American couple who seemed to know a great deal about Trotsky and the Socialist Party of America.
When we arrived at the Blue House those of us who had visited previously waited outside with the guide. He had a theory that Trotsky may have been killed because of his supposed affair with Frida rather than by Joe Stalin’s hit squad, a little extreme especially considering the husband had been caught in flagrente delicto with her sister.
The Floating Gardens were all that a crap tourist trap should be, garish and designed purely to remove money from your wallet and provide nothing of any value in return. We had managed to avoid this kind of non-experience for weeks and to be caught out our last day in Mexico was galling.
Back at the hotel, an hour after we should have checked-out, we had to wait till they let us into the room to collect our bags. Then it was straight into a taxi and back into the traffic for the drive to the airport. It was four hours before our flight and the time passed slowly in that airless place. I had removed the knife from my hand luggage but missed the screwdrivers, as this was a flight to the States the security pantomime was more rigorous than usual and my screwdrivers were found and thrown into a bin.
A few hours later we arrived at Los Angeles World Airport (for inter-planetary arrivals perhaps) and after a drive to Santa Clarita went gratefully to bed. It was 1am, to our body-clocks it was 6am.
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